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The latest word in wordsThu, 06 Mar 2014 19:26:32 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Titian’s Sisyphus: An Eternity of Doubt by David Fraserhttps://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/titians-sisyphus-an-eternity-of-doubt/comment-page-1/#comment-78
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 19:26:32 +0000http://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/?p=1888#comment-78PSITHURISM: The sound of wind in the trees and rustling of leaves.

“The words psithurism and susurration are wonderful gifts from ancient Greece and Rome! They both carry the sense of our ancestors’ relationship with nature, because they have the root meaning as well as the sound of “whisper.” Ancient people felt the aliveness of the forest, and the trees and streams whispered to them.”

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Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:27:04 +0000http://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/?p=1888#comment-77Sibilance is bliss – I always listen for the slight whistled whisper that dulls the edges of hard consonants and elides s’s into
soft companion vowels – I imagine it’s how angels talk –
Australian death metal – who’d have thought?
Sally
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Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:54:10 +0000http://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/?p=1888#comment-76Alan Rickman effortlessly works miracles with vowels. But there is a singer known only as “The Curator”, a member of the Australian avant-garde death metal band, Portal, who speaks / sings / intones with a particularly pleasing, to my ear, sibilance. A feathery sibilance some might characterize as a slight speech impediment but not to my ears. Anyway. There. A post from a fan of Australian avant-garde death metal. Hah.
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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:07:15 +0000http://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/?p=1366#comment-68You see – another reason why I should move to Newfoundland!!
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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:35:56 +0000http://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/?p=1366#comment-67The word was in common use here in NL until recently.
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Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:08:47 +0000http://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/?p=253#comment-66I think I probably picked it up as a kid, in the two years we lived in St. John New Brunswick – a lot of words and expressions that I learned there have stuck with me –
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Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:07:33 +0000http://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/?p=522#comment-65Oh how I’d love to master Newfoundland English!!!
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Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:23:11 +0000http://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/?p=253#comment-64An often used word where I’m from.
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Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:21:00 +0000http://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/?p=400#comment-63Gonna have a “time” tonight. Time: party.
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Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:19:41 +0000http://aneardepthexperience.wordpress.com/?p=522#comment-62Lol! I can provide several examples of just about all the terms…except blunderbus., of course. We have a term here, “hangashore” which means the same as rapscallion.
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